While the entire National Investors’ Conference is always full of interesting and enlightening speakers, sometimes the most interesting things you hear come out over dinner with your clients and their associates. We had two very …
CMS CRACKS DOWN ON SOCIAL MEDIA ABUSE BY NURSING HOME STAFF
By: I. Paul Mandelkern: On August 5th the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a memorandum to all state survey agencies requiring that during the next standard survey of a nursing home, whether …
Technology Must Be A Priority for Senior Living Communities
A recent panel at the Chicago Senior News Chicago Summit discussed the tendency of senior housing developers to spend money on the wrong priorities. In particular, they noted that money spent on technology should be …
MURDER! (and the potential unenforceability of arbitration clauses)
The AARP Bulletin recently ran an interesting article regarding a 100-year senior living facility resident who was strangled to death by her 97-year old roommate. Beyond the macabre and tragic situation itself, the murder gave rise to …
Florida’s Agency for Healthcare Administration Announces Crackdown on Employee Background Checks
Florida’s Chapter of the Assisted Living Federation of America just advised that Florida’s Agency for Healthcare Administration released an e-blast today warning that it will begin to carefully scrutinize employee rosters at senior living facilities to …
Integra Realty Resources Offers Analysis of the Senior Housing Market
Integra Realty Resources (IRR) recently published its 2016 Commercial Real Estate Trends Report, and as always it contained a number of items of interest with respect to the Senior Housing industry. The report recognized the …
What Lies Ahead in 2016?
Senior Housing News recently published an interesting article entitled “Senior Housing Crystal Ball: To Execs’ 2016 Predictions”. As would be expected, there are a lot of concerns over the competition for staff talent and the …
Deinstitutionalizing Living and Cost
By: Shawn Rader Looking ahead to the brave new world of Boomer assisted living, the question arises: what do Boomers want, and can they pay for it? One recent article in the New York Times …
CMS Proposes Restrictions on Arbitration Provisions in Nursing Home Resident Agreements
By: I. Paul Mandelkern The use of a binding arbitration provision in the pre-admission agreement between a senior living facility and its resident has become quite common. If properly drafted and presented to the resident …
Did a Florida Nursing Home Win the Bankruptcy Court Battle But Lose the War?
By I. Paul Mandelkern: Two recent orders by a bankruptcy judge in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Florida show the impact of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy plan on a noncompliant …
